DeWitt County preparing for floods, hurricanes

By BY JESSICA PRIEST - JPRIEST@VICAD.COM
June 17, 2014 at 1:17 a.m.

In 1998, the Guadalupe River swelled to 2 miles wide, gobbling up a third of the homes in Cuero.

"There were no maps that could lay hands on that, that could have even predicted such a thing," DeWitt County Judge Daryl Fowler said of what's known as the 500-year flood. "It was certainly an eye-opening experience."